No, the US should not take Gaza refugees
Zachary Faria
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Between the border crisis and the unfeasibility of the idea, the answer to whether the United States should take in refugees from Gaza should be an absolute, unequivocal “no.”
This is the idea now being floated by the unofficial House Hamas Caucus, with Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) among the first out of the gate with it. Ocasio-Cortez said the U.S. should not abandon its “historic role” in accepting refugees, while Bowman said we could accept them and be “very careful to vet and not allow members of Hamas” in.
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The border crisis should be the beginning and end of this conversation. Democratic sanctuary cities New York City and Chicago have been whining for months about being overrun by illegal immigrants being bused in by border communities that were being overwhelmed for years. Massachusetts is in a state of emergency and revoking hotel reservations for military veterans and their families over the crisis. We already have one “refugee” crisis that Democrats aren’t doing anything about. We don’t need a second.
Perhaps this would be a different discussion if we were talking about refugees from, say, Ukraine, but the reality is that we cannot simply “very carefully vet” Gazans as Bowman said and be comfortable with the results. A 2021 poll found that 53% of Palestinians supported Hamas, and a poll from July of this year found that 57% have at least a somewhat favorable view of the terrorist organization.
We have enough terrorist sympathizers here at home already if the protests by thousands of despicable liberals and the cheerleading of baby slaughter by Ivy League students and professors are any indication. Is that bleak and depressing? Of course it is. But it is also our reality. That doesn’t mean every Palestinian is a terrorist or pro-terrorist. It does mean that we can’t afford a worse than 50-50 shot on each refugee supporting an openly antisemitic terrorist group that slaughtered some 1,200 civilians, including at least 30 Americans.
Dealing with our own border crisis and masses of antisemites cheering the slaughter of Jewish civilians, we have no responsibility to take in refugees from Gaza. There are plenty of neighboring Muslim countries who can and should step up instead, either because it is in their interest (Egypt) or because they helped cause this crisis by supporting Hamas (Qatar). This should not be our burden, and Ocasio-Cortez and other Hamas sympathizers have no ground to guilt anyone into thinking it is.